Ideal Conditions are being created for an Indian Bull Market Ahead
Crude Oil Crashes while Gold rises: Benchmark 10-year US Treasury yields falls below 2% for the first time in over four weeks on Tuesday; German bond yields comes lower than Japanese yields for the first time since January 1988, according to a Merrill Lynch report. Moreover, India has nothing much to do, with what happens in one two distressed countries in Europe!! We have seen how we performed even in one of the worst conditions, the present situation is much better.....These newspaper reports are just for public consumption and we need to read between the lines..
TOKYO: Asian shares fell for a third straight day on Wednesday as uncertainty over global growth prospects, and resurfacing worries about debt restructuring in the euro zone, prompted investors to continue trimming their risk exposures.
After a sharp drop in global equities overnight, Japan's Nikkei average opened down 1.5 per cent, and MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan
was down 0.2 per cent. "For Q2, our strategy remains defensive," Standard Chartered Bank said in a research note. "US data is deteriorating, Europe is in recession and China is still slowing."
The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index slid 1.71 per cent on Tuesday, its worst day in four months, the same day European shares hit a 10-week low on the first trading day after the four-day Easter weekend.
The sell-off was triggered by Friday's data which showed a sharp slowdown in U.S. jobs creation last month, along with Tuesday's data which suggested softening Chinese demand.
Worries about tepid global demand growth hit industrial commodities such as oil and copper but benefited gold and U.S. and German government debt on investors' safety bids on Tuesday.
Asian credit markets took a hit from growing risk aversion, with the spread on the iTraxx Asia ex-Japan investment-grade index widening by 4 basis points on Wednesday.
RISING STRESS SIGNS:
The euro inched down 0.1 per cent to $1.3073 while the dollar fell to a five-week low of 80.60 yen.
Benchmark 10-year US Treasury yields fell below 2 per cent for the first time in over four weeks on Tuesday while resurfacing concerns about Europe's debt problems drove Spanish 10-year yields up to nearly 6 per cent. Spanish bonds have been weighed by last week's weak debt sale.
Italian bond yields were also dragged higher ahead of a 5 billion euro bond auction on Thursday.
Rising premiums on the peripherals pushed German government bond yields lower, with the two-year yield at 0.098 per cent undershooting the two-year Japanese debt yielding around 0.1 per cent. German bond yields are lower than Japanese yields for the first time since January 1988, according to a Merrill Lynch report.
In another sign of rising stress in markets, the VIX index rose to a five-week high on Tuesday to end at 20.39, having jumped about 31 per cent so far in April (VIX will rise if the reporters and other vested interests creates unnecessary fears in the minds of traders). The index, a key gauge of how investors perceive risk, measures expected volatility in the Standard & Poor's 500 index over the next 30 days, and its increase reflects growing risk aversion (Actually it is not how investors gauge risk, but it the measure of how much the media and vested interests want to create fear in the minds of the investors. Now vested interest in the US are basically shorters or those who have started to cry for QE3--Editor, SumanSpeaks) .
Greece will call a snap election for May 6 on Wednesday, government officials said, launching a campaign that may produce no clear results and risk implementation of the bailout plan that saved Athens from bankruptcy.
Oil suffered its biggest one-day per centage loss of the year on Tuesday, hitting a seven-week low on concerns about a potential slowdown in the economy of No. 2 crude consumer China.
Brent crude fell $2.79 to settle at $119.88 a barrel, the weakest close since Feb. 17. The 2.27 per cent slide was the biggest one-day per centage loss since Dec. 14. U.S. crude eased below $101 on Wednesday, after settling at $101.02 the day before, the lowest close since Feb. 14.
Copper fell to a three-month low on Tuesday, hit by softening demand prospects linked to a cooling Chinese economy and slowing jobs growth in the United States, the world's two largest copper consumers.
Gold was down 0.2 per cent at $1,657 an ounce on Wednesday, after rising 1 per cent the day before for a fourth straight day of gains, its longest streak in two months.
Newsbody courtesy: The Economic Times
After a sharp drop in global equities overnight, Japan's Nikkei average opened down 1.5 per cent, and MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan
was down 0.2 per cent. "For Q2, our strategy remains defensive," Standard Chartered Bank said in a research note. "US data is deteriorating, Europe is in recession and China is still slowing."
The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index slid 1.71 per cent on Tuesday, its worst day in four months, the same day European shares hit a 10-week low on the first trading day after the four-day Easter weekend.
The sell-off was triggered by Friday's data which showed a sharp slowdown in U.S. jobs creation last month, along with Tuesday's data which suggested softening Chinese demand.
Worries about tepid global demand growth hit industrial commodities such as oil and copper but benefited gold and U.S. and German government debt on investors' safety bids on Tuesday.
Asian credit markets took a hit from growing risk aversion, with the spread on the iTraxx Asia ex-Japan investment-grade index widening by 4 basis points on Wednesday.
RISING STRESS SIGNS:
The euro inched down 0.1 per cent to $1.3073 while the dollar fell to a five-week low of 80.60 yen.
Benchmark 10-year US Treasury yields fell below 2 per cent for the first time in over four weeks on Tuesday while resurfacing concerns about Europe's debt problems drove Spanish 10-year yields up to nearly 6 per cent. Spanish bonds have been weighed by last week's weak debt sale.
Italian bond yields were also dragged higher ahead of a 5 billion euro bond auction on Thursday.
Rising premiums on the peripherals pushed German government bond yields lower, with the two-year yield at 0.098 per cent undershooting the two-year Japanese debt yielding around 0.1 per cent. German bond yields are lower than Japanese yields for the first time since January 1988, according to a Merrill Lynch report.
In another sign of rising stress in markets, the VIX index rose to a five-week high on Tuesday to end at 20.39, having jumped about 31 per cent so far in April (VIX will rise if the reporters and other vested interests creates unnecessary fears in the minds of traders). The index, a key gauge of how investors perceive risk, measures expected volatility in the Standard & Poor's 500 index over the next 30 days, and its increase reflects growing risk aversion (Actually it is not how investors gauge risk, but it the measure of how much the media and vested interests want to create fear in the minds of the investors. Now vested interest in the US are basically shorters or those who have started to cry for QE3--Editor, SumanSpeaks) .
Greece will call a snap election for May 6 on Wednesday, government officials said, launching a campaign that may produce no clear results and risk implementation of the bailout plan that saved Athens from bankruptcy.
Oil suffered its biggest one-day per centage loss of the year on Tuesday, hitting a seven-week low on concerns about a potential slowdown in the economy of No. 2 crude consumer China.
Brent crude fell $2.79 to settle at $119.88 a barrel, the weakest close since Feb. 17. The 2.27 per cent slide was the biggest one-day per centage loss since Dec. 14. U.S. crude eased below $101 on Wednesday, after settling at $101.02 the day before, the lowest close since Feb. 14.
Copper fell to a three-month low on Tuesday, hit by softening demand prospects linked to a cooling Chinese economy and slowing jobs growth in the United States, the world's two largest copper consumers.
Gold was down 0.2 per cent at $1,657 an ounce on Wednesday, after rising 1 per cent the day before for a fourth straight day of gains, its longest streak in two months.
Newsbody courtesy: The Economic Times
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